Hydraulic motor for churn-operating devices



HYDRAULIC MOTOR FOR CHURN OPERATING DEVICES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-6,1919.

1,338,3 9, Patented Apr. 27; 1920.

A TTORNEYS ALPHONSE 3005,01 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HYDRAULIC MOTOR FOR CHURN-OPERATING DEVICES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

Application filed November 6, 1919. Serial No. 336,116.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALrrIoNsn Roos, a citizen of the Republic of France, and a resident of the city of Chicago, $111 the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement 1n Hydraulic Motors for Churn-Operating Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in hydraulic devices for operating churns, and it consists in the combinations, constructions and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a simple device, by means of which water, as, for instance, that derived from a village water supply, may be utilized for operating the churn.

A further object of my invention is to provide a simple device for operating the churn, which is adjustable to meet varying conditions, such as churns of different sizes, or heights, and rooms of different size, etc. A further object of my invention is to provide a churn operating device which consists of relatively few parts, and which, therefore, is not liable to easily get out of order.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, and the novel features of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the device, and

Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of the device, showing an adjustable bucket.

Fig. 3 shows the arrangement of'certain elements.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a base 1, upon which are mounted uprights 2, these uprights being preferably hollow, and having telescopic members 3, which may be supported in adjustable positions by means of pins 4;, which extend through openings 5.

Rotatively carried by the supports 3, near the upper ends thereof, is a shaft 6, upon which are rigidly secured arms 7 having telescopic extensions 8, and to which are secured buckets 9, these buckets being adj ustable with respect to the arms 8 by means of sloted securing members 10 and set screws 11. The telescopic members 7 and 8 may also be adjusted and retained in position by means of set screws 12.

A receptacle 13 is provided for the cream. Vithin this receptacle is a dasher or plunger 14 which has a pair of plunger rods 15 and 16 extending upwardly through .the cover 17, the shaft 6 passing between the rods 15 and 16. At 18 I have shown a disk or plate which is adjustably supported on the rods 16 and 17 by means of collars l8 having set screws 19. The disk 18 is designed to support a series of weights 20 which have openings to receive the plunger stems or rods 15 and 16. At 21 I have shown arms which are secured to the shaft 6, and which have adjustable extensions 22, bearing rollers 23.

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily understood. The device is located in close proximity to a water supply, which may be a faucet 24C or other suitable source. This source is disposed in such a position as to deliver water to the buckets 9 when the latter are in a horizontal position, 2'. 0., at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 1. The weight of the water in the buckets causes a downward movement of the arm 7 which bears the bucket that is being filled. When the bucket reaches a given position, the water flows out, but in the meantime another bucket is being filled, so that there is a continuous rotation of the shaft 6. The movement of the arms bearing the rollers 23 causes an upward movement of the disk 18 bearing the weights 20. When the rollers 23 recede from the disk 18, the latter descends by the force of the weights 20. The plunger 14 is, therefore, reciprocated and agitates the cream 25 within the receptacle 13, thus causing the formation of butter.

The stroke of the plunger may be varied by adjustingthe extensions 22 bearing the rollers The shaft 6 may be adjusted vertically by means of the telescopic supports 3, while the position of the buckets 9 may be adjusted with respect to the extensions 8, and the latter may be adjusted with respect to the arm 7, so that the device is capable of various adjustments to suit various conditions.

Obviously, more buckets might be added and more arms with rollers 23, without departing from the spirit of the invention, the idea being to have sufficient buckets to give a substantially uniform rotation to the shaft 6.

I claim:

1. In a hydraulic churn operating device,

the combination ,of vertical adjustable sup-.

ports, a shaft carried by said supports, arms carried by the shaft, buckets carried by the arms, means for successively supplying the buckets with water, whereby the shaft is turned by the weight of the water in the buckets, said buckets being arranged to discharge the water at a predetermined position, a plunger stem, and means operated by the rotation of the shaft for reciprocatingthe plunger stem.

2. In a hydraulic churn operating device, the combination of vertical adjustable supports, a shaft carried by said supports,

arms carried by the shaft, buckets carried by the arms, means for successively supplying the buckets with water, whereby the shaft is turned by the Weight of the water in the buckets, said buckets being arranged to discharge the water at a predetermined position, a plunger stem, means operated by the rotation of the shaft for reciprocating the plunger, said last named means comprising a disk secured to the plunger stem, weights carried by the disk, arms carried by the shaft, and rollers carried by the arms and arranged to engage the disk for causing an upward movement thereof.

ALPHONSE ROOS. 

